Sara Bender: key obituary facts
Is Sara Bender dead? Yes. Sara Bender died on October 31, 2026, at age 78.
Cause of death: Sara Bender's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Sara Bender known for?
She was an Israeli historian.
More about Sara Bender
Born: 1 January 1948.
Gender: female.
Occupation: historian.
Nationality: Israel.
Also known as: Sara Bender.
Sara Bender, an Israeli historian, died October 31, 2026, aged 78.
Born in 1948, she earned a doctoral degree in 1994 from the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation examined the Jews of Białystok during World War II, focusing her doctoral research on the history of that community during the wartime period.
From 1998, Bender taught in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. She served as an associate professor there and was later promoted to professor. Alongside her university teaching, she edited Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust. Her documented academic work thus included research on Jewish history, teaching in a university department devoted to the subject, and editorial work for a journal focused on Holocaust studies. Her career connected doctoral research at the Hebrew University with a teaching post at Haifa and an editorial role in Holocaust scholarship.